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V0. XVI. NO. 272 HEEIS FROM U. S.I I BRITISH FIGHT Hi! Two Regiments of American Sol-: diers Are Helping to Stem Tide of German Onrush; Some Losses Very Likely Suffered. American Guns Still Pouring Shells Into German Positions1 North of Toul; Explosions Are Observed When Shells Hit. By Fred S. Ferguson WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE, March 25. (U. P.) Explosions were observed in the rear of the German lines north of Toul today, following American artillery fire. There Is considerable aerial ac , - ivity and the enemy threw some gas shells into the American lined. This front Is otherwise quiet American soldiers here are greatly interested in the German drive and wish they could share the brunt of the defense wita the British. A few companies of American en gineers are already at the British front. It Is believed possible they threw down their tools Vin:l foujjht with rifles as they did In '.ho battles around Cambral last November. Otherwise, the denial that Americans are engaged In resisting the Oerman drive is re- Iterated. Two Regiments Participating By Carl D. Groat Washington, March 26. (U. P.) American engineers have apparently (Coaelodsd on Fife Two. Column One) 3D LIBERTY LOAN v TOTALS 3 BILLION Secretary McAdoo Fixes Amount of Bonds to Be Issued and Interest Rate at 41-4. Washington. March 26. (I. N. S.) The third Liberty loan will total $3,000. 000,000 and pay 4 Pr cent. Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo announced Monday, after a conference with Chair man Claude Kitchln of the house ways and means committee. His decision came as a distinct sur prise, the amount and the Interest rate both falling' below expectations. It had been expected th,e loan would total 5, 000,000,000 at least, but Mr. McAdoo ' pointed out war expenditures are iall " inir below estimates, and the money market Is In such condition that it will not be necessary to pay 44 per cent, aa had been expected. The loan. Secretary McAdoo said, cannot ran to succeed. He said: . ' People Will Respond "I ana' sure the people will respond ; to the third Liberty loan with the same ' 'loyalty and enthusiasm that character ised their support of the ilrat two loans. The great events now happening In c France must fire the soul of every American with a new determination to furnish all the dollars and all the ma terial resources of America that are v needed o put an end to the execrable -- atrocities of German militarism. "Defeat faces the kaiser. Let us K i ' . ( " tConoitided on ' Pace Two. Column Six) PHONE YOUR HELP WANTED ADS to The Journal- f Main 7173 A-6051 Mi ' Result, at little expense. BATTLE SLACKENS SLlGHTLtl MAP TELLS STORY OF FIGHTING THE WEST FRONT, showing the relation of Germany's attacks to the position of Paris. The heavy black line rep resents lasf year's battle line, while the heavy dotted line shows the positions of the armies at the opening of the present offensive. The light dotted lines represent the farthest advance of the Germans in 1914. The circle indicates a radius of 62 miles from Paris. The upper arrow indicates the salient pierced by the Germans near St. Quentin, the lower arrow the position of American forces. JjlBOULOCNE) Ar-Urry 0W5x B EL GU M Vi r 7s V'-l.n.lV. aTonrtja, U . . . . i -. i . &4hiiysmttsbflfai I BRITISH FACING DO FONTS BACK BIG H- WSp It Is Defeat but Not Disaster, Is Comment of Manchester Guardian. By Ed L. Keen f London, March 26. (U.-P.) Although Great Britain's traditional calmness la unperturbed and its confidence In Hale's ability to hold the enemy Is unshakenu there Is a general disposition to face facts squarely and not minimize the possibility of further retirement. One of the frankest comments on the situation is that of the Manchester Guardian. ' r. "We have suffered - a . severe defeat, but we know how to draff a victory out of defeat." declared the Guardian. "But It is not a decisive defeat and won't be. As long as our alignment is maintained the enemy's advance, in stead of being progressive, will be re tarded. "We have lost ground, but we are still far in advance of the positions which we held for two years. "It Is a defeat but not a disaster ; it Is a time of great anxiety, but we are justified In awaiting the, future with confidence." Xew York Papers Comment ' New Yark, March 26. (I. N. S.) Editorial comment on the great German thrust on the West front here today struck a note of optimism, writers pointing out that the allies have with stood unprecedented concentrations of troops repeatedly in the past and that a drawn battle will be a German defeat. The World points out that again the German general staff is gambling on sheer weight of men and metal, and that so long as the allied line holds, riothlng I lost. "A drawn batle of the Somme would be a decisive defeat for the Germans," said the Times." "and the temper of their people at home would not endure another disappointment of their hopes. "The British front has been bent, but it has not been broken." t " , " Division of Forces Criticized London. March 26. (I. N. S.) The morale of the allied army remains high," aald the Dally Chronicle, in an editorial today. "Their numbers so far have been economically used, but we could wish they were,, larger. - What would we not give to have on the west ern front the large forces which have been, held at Saloniki? ,The present ordeal, if it does nothing else, ought to bring home to the most skeptical, the correctness of the western view of allied strategy." Appeal to Munition Workers, London, March 26- (U. " P.) -Winston Churchill, minister of munitions,, today appealed to munitions workers not to cease work during the Easter holidays, in order to make good the expenditures on the" Western front," , v . .PORTLAND, OREGON, TUESDAY EVENING, hfzL $ '7"- Proposed Giant Columbia River VLMSrk wy,C yJ,s. ' Shipyard, Woudl Use New lMrt ( ka Principle, It Is Said. VrfS . l XL . Jta.AuuMf '. M ' Washington, March 26. (WASHING TON BUREAU fP THE JOURNAL.) It is' reported here that the investors who want to go Into shipbuilding on an extensive scale on the Columbia river, and who were Introduced to Senator McNary by a Delaware senator, are the DuPont interests of Delaware, one of the most powerful financial combinations In the country. niis report tended to be confirmed by the announcement that the Interests concerned are prepared to handle the machinery without complica tion to the government program. .'Senator McNary is submitting a state ment in their behalf to the shipping board to the effect that the ships pro posed will be of an auxiliary type and will require nothing used in present marine engine work, such as boilers. steam piping and condensers, nor will they require smokestacks or coal con veying machinery. The ships will lack propeller shafts and will be driven by internal combustion engines, driving electric generator motors operated on a new mechanical principle. Senator McNary is submitting these plans in the hope that permission will be given for starting the big development project which needs only the assurance that ships contracted for can be de livered when built. Steel Mill Expected To Rise at Linnton - Indications that plans will be followed up for the erection of a steel roller mill near Linnton by the Pacific Coast Steel company is found in the filing for rec ord Monday of a deed to 10i acres of land. ' The land was bought from M. L. Hol brook, trustee for the former Merchants National bank, and P. J. Mann. The papers bad been held in escrow until the full .purchase price of about $30,000 had been paid. The initial payment was $10. 00Q. The Pacific Coast Steel company bought five acres about a year ago. This tract adjoins the larger one. The original announcement of the transaction named in the deed Just filed was reported in The Journal a year ago. Claude De Bussey, V Composer, Is Dead Paris. March. 26. (TJ.' P.) Claude De l Bussey, a t prominent , music, composer, died today. 1 , , . - , - HINDENBURG IS PLAYING LEAPFROG WITH DEATH . , By William Philip Slmms .With the British Arm 18 In the .Field. March 26. (U. P.) The sixth Jday of the monster battle finds the " British and Germans fighting like tigers across the famous Pozleres ridge, which Haig wrested from Hindenburg In the fall of 1916. . Furious fighting continues, the enemy throwing masses in the direc tion of Albert from the high ground around Montauban. Here the Brit ish, in machine gun positions, are resisting stubbornly. The Germans also are thrusting westward from Nesle, attempting to drive a wedge there, but their prog ress continues slow. Allied Resistance Stiffens The allied resistance is dally stlf . fenlng. The enemy is violently en deavoring to break through at three points south of Arras, toward Al bert and toward Noyon. Each .sec tor Is the scene of the heaviest lighting, night and day. 1 The Germans were reported to day along a line through Logeaat wood, Llgny-Thlllery and Montau ban, fighting madly toward the valley of the bloody Ancre, The weather continues fine, favor ing the Germans. For a few hqurs. M'ADOO REVEALS NEEDS OF ALLIES Additional .Loans of $1,500,000, 000 Will Be Required During Summer. Washington. March 26. (L N. S.5 Authorization of $1,500,000,000 additional for loans to the allies during the com ing summer was asked when Secretary of the .Treasury McAdoo revealed ad ditional details of the third Liberty loan plans to the house ways and means committee today. The secretary explained that of the original $7,000,000,000 authorized for these loans only $2,000,000,000 remains to be expended and at the present rate of disbursements, $500,000,000 per month, this sum will be exhausted by the end of the fiscal year, June 30. The addi tional amount asked will provide for loans up to the end of September at the same rate. Secretary McAdoo will make known to the ways and means committee to morrow the amount of additional treas ury certificates of indebtedness he, de sires to issue. Conductors Fined; v No Receipts Given Fire Streetcar Employee Convicted Is Municipal Coart of Violating Cify Or dinance) Appeal Is Expected." Municipal Judge Rossman found five streetcar conductors guilty this .morn ing on a charge of falling, to give a re ceipt when & cash fare is paid under the ity. ordinance which reads r "That it is hereby made the duty of the Port land Railway, Light, Power company and each of Its' "officers, employes, agents - andconductoWuport receiving i from any -passenger upon any streetcar 1 of said, company a cent 'cash fare to' give,..suchJjaa3engerat recelptfor:. the . same." .- j . - 1 : : : I MARCH '28 1918. SIXTEEN PAGES. this afternoon, the barometer fell and clouds came' up, but the wind veered to the north, clearing up the sky. Over 209 Airplanes Dowsed The airmen are profiling, how ever, by both the sunshine and star light. During the past four days' fighting, more than 200 machines have been brought down. One hun dred and twenty have been seen to crash to earth In kindling wood, while 83 were observed- falling be yond control. Low flying machines are ceaselessly- harrassing the German at tackers, sometimes simultaneously bombing advancing waves. Hindenburg Is playing leapfrog with death. He is driving perhaps 20 divisions until they are exhaust ed ; then 30 more through the first, and when these are spent and the first somewhat refreshed, "leap frogging" the first through the second after substituting f flesh di-' visions In the rear for the more mauled divisions. Battle Fought on Desert When General von Below's men crossed the Somme south of Peronne ROLL OF HONOR Wshinton, Marcn 2. (I. N. 8.) Tw.ntjr three mmM wen included in the c&Aualtv Umt an nounced fata thia afternoon bv the war dmrt. ment. Two men were killed in action, seven died of disease and three were rictims of fatal accidents. One man was severely wounded in action and 10 were tlishur wounded. Killed In Action PRIVATE DEWERT MINTWEEB. PRIVATE WILLIAM K. NEAL. Died of Accident ' CORPORAL ALBERT MIDER. PRIVATE GEOHUE C. GRAY. PRIVATE WILLIAM CHRISTIAN. " Died of Disease 7 SERGEANT VINCENT C. HARGOOD; pneu monia. CORPORAL LYNN OPEIX: diphtheria. CORPPORAL ROSS E. 8 HELTON; .pnea- monia PRIVATE GEORGE ARNETT-. nostalgia. PRIVATE OLE BECK- diphtheria. PRIVATE ELMER MATHEWS BTEBLET ; peritonitis. PRIVATE PHILIP C. SMITH diphtheria. Wounded Severely Private Edward Dittman. . Wounded Slightly Major Georce J. Lawrence, Major Timothy J. Mornaban, Lieutenant Georc K. Hatton, . 8er- keant .Warren W. Lokker, Cook Kaximines.Cie iinoT, Private Everett G. Guion. Private David FT. Pollock, Private Harry F. Weidman, Private Ton Wisniaki, Private James Wyatt. Easter Bunnies For Sale Electric Fan Wanted Pore, Bird s Pets, Etc. it EASTER bunnies. New Zealand, Flemish and Belgian.- For Sale Mlseellaneons It FOR SALE Cook stove with colL Price 911. Wanted Mlseellaneoss ELECTRIC fan, Jtent,. rifle wanted. Sol'many 'people lose a vast amount of, pleasure simply because they hav never, learned, the value of a simple little appeal in THE JOURNAL W A N. T, COLUMNS. Don't let this "month of March go by without satisfying those little extra wants through THE r JOUR NAL ,WANT ATJS.- . PHONE tomC AT TODAY e . Main 7178 PHONES A-6051 rA urn mum uESfdS Fighting Is Dying Down East of Albert and Roye Is Report From Field Marshal Haig; Continued Fighting North of the Somme Expected, but Battle Had Not Developed Early Today; Between, 500,000 and 800,000 Germans Engaged IT QNDON, March 26. (U. -i -by the British war office PARIS, March 26. (U. rrr . -i . war oince repoirea xooay. ine reuremeni was maae in cxccucni oracr. The French are holding solidly on the left bank of the Oise. The battle continued violently during Monday evening. The enemy multiplied its attacks on the Noyon-Chaulnes front. The French artillery was well established in the Noyon region and efficaciously supported the infantry, whose resistance and fre quent' counter; attacks delayed the. German drive and inflicted heavy losses. (Noyon is about 20 miles west and south of La Fere, which marked the line before the German advance started.) ' TOE: E DRIVE Slow Progress 'Being Made by Von Hindenburg Is "Good. Augury for the Allies. By J. W. T. Mason New York, March- 26. (U. T Von Hlndenburg's stupendous slaughter of Germany's manpower is still 'failing to wrest back the full area of territory voluntarily evacuated by the Germans last March. Between 66 and 70 per cent of the terrain they lost nas now been recovered, but the full victory that ran mmnenuta for Germany's unprece- dented casualties has not been won. The I British line remains unbroken. Von Hlndeftburg no longer is advanc ing on the wide front of last week. The .fresh Oerman shock troops used during . the past 24 hours have not displayed the same reckless impetuosuy of the initial attack. The kaisers hwt divisions show evidence of becom- . inff exhausted. The stamina ol m ; reinforcements suggested Von Hlnden Iiun'a available buddIv of cannon fodder" may have fallen to the seconl and third grade men. Desperate Efforts in Sooth Nevertheless, Von Hindenburg Is de veloping further desperate Intention of trying ' to break through the southern part of the British front. The combat across the Somme river Involves the most serious consequences ror the house of Hohenzoller. It Is the southern part of the present battleffont that has been, put under the nominal control of the German crown prince. The loss of pres- itlge that the Hohenzollem heir suffered at Verdun evidently must De recovered now or not at all. The crown prince of a fighting house like the Henxoi lern might be fatally handicapped as a ruler rf a major checK at the Somme were to follow his defeat at. Verdun. Slew Progress Good Indication AH the more urgent is It for the kaiser to press the Somme fighting be cause the rival crown prince of Ba .varla commands the, northern half of the new batUe area. For Prussia to permit Bavaria to make the better record at this crisis In the affairs of the Hohensollerns might be fatal. The slow progress of the German advance across the Somme, therefore, is a happy augury for the allies. Tne capture ef Bapaume is of secondary consequence ' to this. The British front after the St. Quen tin reverse is remaining stolidly In tact In 'the south. Here is where the greatest bjows are falling, and here is the scene fixed, if the British line still holds, for the house of Hohenxol lerns most disastrous defeat. Scout Patrol Ship t Accidentally Sunk An 'Atlantic Port, March 2i. L N. S.) The American scout patrol ship Ad miral; was sunk off the North Atlantic coast today All ' the members of . the crew were able to reach shore In the lifeboats. The scout ship, however, is a total, loss, ap parently..' '. , j ' GERMAN AND SLACKENS PRICE TWO CENTS SOLIDLY OH LEFT DELAY 1 DRIVE P.) The capture of Roye by the Germans was announced in an official statemen tonight . - P.) Noyon was evacuated during the night, the French n ' . i 11 . i ' , ERLI.vi..ldoh;-"ilarch6-(U- P.) The figlitirjg has spread to the r landers iront, today. - . "English divisions brought up in Flanders from Italy were de feated yesterday," the statement said. , r ' "We captured the villages of Bihucourt, BicfvilJjers and Gre villers." J (Bihucourt, Biefvillers and Grevillers arc locate! in a group a short .distance northeast of Bapaume.) ' . The statement also claimed the capture of Irles, and Miraumont and declared the Germans had crossed the Ancrc "The enemy from the direction of Albert -was driven bak' after a bitter struggle," the statement said. L ONDON, March 26. (U. P.) Roye and Albert, Field Marshal Haig reported today. The Plritich Viav cta riUhff1 new nnsitinns thorc " - - - r . v.. "North of the Somme continuation of the fighting was expect ed, but has not developed yet," the statement says. "South of the ScVmme this morning attacks were reported de veloping, also against the French in the neighborhood of Roye and Chaulncs. "The enemy losses continue severe. He has been- obliged to reinforce his lines from all parts of tlie western theatre. Over 70 hostile divisions are known to be engaged.' - The Somme splits the battlefront in the vicinity of Peronne. Roye is seven miles southwest of Nesle, which marks the far thest German advance yet reported. Chaulnes is eight miles .east, of Roye, 21 miles due west of St. Quentin . and eight8 miles south--west of Peronne. : . Seventy divisions, according tp most authorities, would mean about 525,000 infantry, or possibly 840,000 men of all departments. T ONDON, March 26. (U. P.) Every hour brjngs nearer the moment J- when the allied armies' reserve will be ready to Intervene in the strut ftte, before Hindenburg must have achieved a decision or be prepared to See' the tide go against him, dispatches.' from the French front. declared today. The German advance will be stopped as soon as its initial momentum Is absorbed by the exhaustion of baitle and collision with equal forces. ' The way to Paris is blocked by a powerful French army under a ee'neril of proVen capacity. London, March 26. (L N. S.) Fight ing in the mighty battle In. Plcardy died down during the night, the British war office reported today. The official statement dwells on the severity of the German losses, calling them "appalling." French forces have extended and rein forced that, portion of the. British fight ing front which they took over along the southern end of the battle zone. Violent Infantry fighting and heavy bombardments continue ' along the 60 mile battle front, with the severest German pressure now centered in the district between Bapaume and the Olse river. t The Germans, using vast forces of troops, are trying to advance to the GERMANS TWO TO ONE F OLLOWING is an estimate of the number of men engaged and the casualties in the "greatest battle of the greatest war' based on. the best obtainable information, but sub ject to official confirmation : ' Germans, total number engaged in past six days, 1,250,000. Total number engaged daHy, 850,000. . Total casualties, 400,000. . British, total number engaged ift past six days, 600,0007" , Total number engaged daily, 500,000. ; Total casualties, .150,000 (including German claim of 45,000 DrisonersV , ' ' Note: Estimated casualties tared and missing. . DURING B: tne uerman war omoe reported Fighting has died down east of westward of Gulscard. along the road from Nesle to Roye. towards Chaulnes from Peronne ard on the road from Bapaume to Albert. Great quantities of German artillery ' have been moving to the front to sup port the solid columns of infantry. In -fact, the Germans in their present I. drive have established a new record regard to the nearness with which th artillery is kept to the firing line.." Desperate fighting Is reported from the district west of the Somme river be tween the Noyons heights and Peronne. " (The German crown prince is In com mand of the German troops north Of : Peronne and It Is evident from the re- : ports of the German war office that (Concluded on Fsga Tne. fcoinoa One) included killed, ; wounded, cap ' . , . ' , ,' . . i . ' . .. . - ' -